We haven't spent much time documenting our history as we go along. We are starting to get to an age where not everyone can remember this history, and it would it would be useful to have some of this data for both research and nostalgic value.
I periodically have written a Strategic Direction paper which captures some history and looks forward. The latest is at: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAP/Strategic+Direction and previous versions are linked from there. You can get ideas about dates from the svn commits and the dates of releases. Raj Singh wrote a pre-cursor to Mapbuilder originally which demonstrated use of vector rendering in a web browser. I then took his core ideas and built the first Mapbuilder which was a WMS Viewer built from a Web Map Context document. It ran in IE and Firefox - on any operating system. Mike Adair was working on something similar and joined forces very early on. Among other things, Mike was responsible for the config.xml files that is now core to Mapbuilder. We then focused on WFS-T functionality, vector rendering using wz_graphics (ie drawing a line by hundreds of <div> elements, and transactions between the browser and server. We were writing AJAX code before anyone knew about the power of AJAX, before AJAX had been coined, and before Goolge made AJAX popular. Looking back we were blazing a lot of new ground, and as happens when you blaze ground, we made some design decisions that we would make differently today. Anyway, hopefully that should give you enough to fill an intro section. John Roberts wrote: > Dear All > > I am writing a dissertation on spatial FOSS products. I am including > MapBuilder. > > I was wondering if anybody could provide me with some information on > MapBuilder history. I am particularly interested to know: > > 1. In what year was MapBuilder first released? > 2. Was the MapBuilder first released as Linux only and if so, in what year > was the Windows version first released? > 3. Any other interesting facts about its history. > > Many Thanks for your time. > > Kind Regards > > John > Manchester, UK > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Mapbuilder-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users > > -- Cameron Shorter Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mapbuilder-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users
